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The Scottish government has been urged to deliver a proper pay deal for officers and tackle soaring numbers of officers considering retirement after Police Scotland confirmed that the number of planned retirements is 69 per cent above normal retirement levels when compared with the five-year averag

A passenger on a flight from Indonesia to Australia has been fined $1,874 after a police dog sniffed out two McMuffins and a ham croissant in his possession. The passenger failed to declare the McDonald’s breakfast order before arriving at Darwin Airport in Australia's Northern Territory.

People complaining about their solicitors are being forced to wait for up to two years for their complaints to be opened by the Legal Ombudsman, The Times reports. Staff at the industry-funded arbitration scheme are so overwhelmed that nearly one in four are leaving every year.

Leeds Building Society has said it will no longer lend to those buying second homes as doing so puts home ownership out of reach of first-time buyers. Leeds, which is one of the UK's 20 largest mortgage lenders, has surprised mortgage experts who said it was unusual for banks to be overtly public ab

Digby Brown’s media manager, Sam Whyte, is participating in the Loch Ness Marathon on Sunday 2nd October to fundraise for Asbestos Action and Clydebank Asbestos Group.

MBM Commercial has announced several promotions in its Edinburgh office.

Gillespie Macandrew has announced the appointment of former RBS/NatWest group general counsel, Michael Shaw, as its new chair. Mr Shaw brings a wealth of legal, commercial and business expertise to Gillespie Macandrew and replaces Fiona Morton, who retired from the role in early July after five

Brodies' solicitor advocate Tony Jones QC was called to the English bar in a ceremony conducted at Middle Temple last week. Mr Jones is the only QC in Scotland to be accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as an expert in both professional negligence law and construction law. He frequently represe

Blackadders LLP has announced new board appointments to serve alongside newly elected joint managing partners Emma Gray and Ryan McKay.

A 28-year-old man who kept and trained dogs for fighting has been sentenced to 210 days' imprisonment, banned from keeping animals for 15 years and fined £1,800 for firearms offences. Rhys Davies, a former gamekeeper at Millden Estate near Glenesk, was sentenced at Forfar Sheriff Court after p

An application seeking leave to appeal against four applications alleging breaches of the Letting Agents Code of Practice has been refused by the Upper Tribunal for Scotland after it determined that the matters had already been settled. Tonero Ltd had formerly hired Countrywide Residential Lettings

Businessman Craig Whyte is to sue Scottish police and prosecutors for £10 million on the basis he was maliciously prosecuted during the botched probe into Rangers FC. Mr Whyte, 51, bought Rangers for £1 from Sir David Murray in 2011. He was arrested over an allegedly fraudulent buyout of

A man is challenging a parking ticket that he was given after the kerb was repainted red while he was away from his car. Desiree and Jeff Jolly said they have been parking in a space at the corner of Larkin and Union streets in San Francisco for the last 25 years. However, last week they discovered

The Supreme Court has handed down judgment in the Scottish product liability action of Hastings v Finsbury Orthopaedics Limited and Stryker UK Limited, unanimously dismissing the appeal brought by Mr Hastings. This maintains the finding of the lower courts that the appellant failed to prove that the

The next edition of CLT Scotland’s popular Scots Law Series will be taking place live online during October with delegates able to choose from 10 individual conferences. Roy Spiers, CLT Scotland’s Director of Programmes, said: “Practical, statutory and caselaw developments have con